Legislative Background on Saving the Postal Service
Recent Action by Congress on Postal Service Reform
In early December 2011, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced that it would make changes in its service standards that would “to allow for significant consolidation of the postal network in terms of facilities, processing equipment, vehicles and employee workforce” and “generate projected net annual savings of approximately $2.1 billion.” The changes were to be part of the USPS’s “network optimization” initiative, which is projected to save up to $3 billion by 2015. USPS Agreement With Congress. Congress reacted negatively to the plan, which included closing more than half of the USPS’s mail-processing center and about 3,700 post offices. Twenty-two…
